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Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums and thank you for your suggestion

We do not yet have a public roadmap of future features for Affinity Publisher but I am sure your request would be popular with our legacy software userbase. You will need to export as PDF and import or try copy paste for now.

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Please, please, pretty please! The structure, from what I've seen, is very like Pageplus and I've got years of stuff in that. Recreating a lot of text and document formats all over again would be a major pain. In practice, I wouldn't purchase until I had to unless this was on offer.

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Yes, agreed very much. Those of us who have been very loyal Serrif users (for decades!) should not be forgotten. I am really surprised that you did not think of this right from the start, especially given the similarity of design and layour of your new Publisher. It means those of us with legacy documents that might be very important will have to maintain PagePlus and the new Publisher. So please don't just put this on the backburner, but get on and implement it.

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the r﻿e﻿al﻿ an﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿swer is “ it would cost us too much time and money to build a file converter utility”﻿﻿

That’s only partially true, Julian. The real answer is that the Affinity apps don’t cover all of the features of their ‘Plus’ counterparts, so there will be some objects for which a purpose-built converter utility would give you a result that isn’t any better than importing a PDF file.

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That’s only partially true, Julian. The real answer is that the Affinity apps don’t cover all of the features of their ‘Plus’ counterparts, so there will be some objects for which a purpose-built converter utility would give you a result that isn’t any better than importing a PDF file.

I think most of us long-time PagePlus users would understand and accept that limitation, but still welcome an importer which converted all the many types of object that do have Affinity replicas.

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Just to add that the new Affinity program should be capable of opening Page Plus files. Managed to open a pdf of a Pageplus 9 document, text was editable but a simple colour gradient fill heading needed a complete re-draw. I hope when the final program is ready for release loyal Pageplus users will not be forgotten.

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We do not plan to support the legacy file formats (.PPP, .DPP or .SPP) in the Affinity range, sorry. The latest versions of those programs continue to work and we would suggest you continue using them for projects you have already invested a lot of time in, and use the Affinity range for your new projects going forward, or import PDF where you want new functionality provided by the Affinity software.

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We do not plan to support the legacy file formats (.PPP, .DPP or .SPP) in the Affinity range, sorry. The latest versions of those programs continue to work and we would suggest you continue using them for projects you have already invested a lot of time in, and use the Affinity range for your new projects going forward, or import PDF where you want new functionality provided by the Affinity software.

You are supposed to support your customers and carry them on your journey.

There will be many who've invested years in producing work that they'll eventually lose when the legacy packages cease operating.

It might be a business decision down to viability, yet it could cost you more in the long term, if people have to start afresh, why not go elsewhere, as they'll have lost trust in you.

Why not offer an independent developer(s) the opportunity to work on a legacy conversions tool under your guidance if you are unwilling.

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I've been a dedicated user of Page Plus since its Beta days ( & that's a very long time ). So, I have hundreds of Page Plus files. Unless I've missed something in the Beta, I can't find any way to open or import them directly into Affinity designer. This does make continuity for your loyal users rather difficult. Please help :-)